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hellloo! I have just joined here. (:I want to learn something. First of all can you explain PET exam because I have PET exam next week and I have to pass this exam and I don't know anything!Secondly I can't find the differents between Present Perfect and Sımple Past ..Especially I can't fill in the blank with these if they given together..

Re: Pet

Originally Posted by ni_nihan

hellloo! I have just joined here. (:I want to learn something. First of all can you explain PET exam because I have PET exam next week and I have to pass this exam and I don't know anything!Secondly I can't find the differents between Present Perfect and Sımple Past ..Especially I can't fill in the blank with these if they given together..

Hi

Present Perfect Tense Simple -Use:
1. Recently completed actions :
We`ve just finished lunch.
The show has already begun.
2. Past actions completed in an unspecified time:
I`ve seen that film but I don`t mind watching it again
He has written ten novels and I`ve read all of them. I think he is great.
3. With time expressions:
I have phoned her six times this morning.
I haven`t seen her for ages!
4.Future actions[ in time clauses]:
You can go out as soon as you`ve had your lunch.
I`ll give you a call when the meeting has ended.

Past Simple Tense-Use:
1.Actions completed at a DEFINITE point in the past [when the time is given]:
They arrived YESTERDAY.
We bought this car FIVE YEARS AGO.
He left the army LAST YEAR.
2. Actions completed at a definite point in the past which is not given but implied or understood as past time :
They met in San Francisco.
The plane was two hours late.
3. Actions which occupied a period of time in the past:
She worked as a secretary from May till October.
He studied medicine for five years.
I spent my childhood in a little village in the north.
4. Habitual past actions:
She always complained about everything.
We used to swim a lot in our student days.
5. Suppositions{Conditional type II]
If we moved abroad life would be easier.
Suppose the earth were flat.
If he had a little more courage he would ask for a rise.
6. Special uses:
I wish I knew her name.
If only we had a little daughter!
They talk as if they wanted to rule the world.
It`s high time they served the turkey.
I`d rather you drove tonight. I don`t feel very well.

The differences between the two tenses[ present perfect and past tense ] are quite obvious. While past tense simple refers to completed actions in the past [finished actions!] , present perfect tense simple refers to recently completed actions or past actions completed in an unspecified time.
Past tense simple is used with specific adverbs of time : yesterday, last week/year/ month, etc., two days ago, the day before yesterday, etc.
Present perfect tense is used with some time expressions as : for years/months/weeks,lately, recently, since, for such a long time, always, never, ever, today, this morning/afternoon/evening/week/month/year, so far, yet, already, etc.

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